I don't really feel like the one who should welcome a whole "West South Central" region, but nobody did so far. Somebody has to be first, so:

Welcome, and have a good time here in the forum, as well as out on the run, finding those boxes, cans, tubes, and whatnot. And if you ever come to Baton Rouge, LA we might even stumble over each other while finding one of the hundreds of caches there.